On the day that Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration disputed our 18-month investigation into the city’s dangerously defective fire engines and ladder trucks, at least four rigs broke down.
Less than a day before hitting the streets for the first time, Detroit’s fire engine was taken out of service and sent to the repair shop.
Detroit’s failing fleet of engines and trucks responded to more than 150 suspicious fires in houses, businesses, apartment buildings, schools and churches in the busiest month yet this year.
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The nonprofit collected more than $50,000 for security last year, but that wasn’t enough.
We monitored every fire run since temperatures plummeted Tuesday evening, and what we found was troubling.
This year’s goal was to hold public officials accountable and shed light on underserved neighborhoods.
Engine 48 is one of the most important lines of defense against a fire at the Marathon refinery and provides protection to tens of thousands of people in southwest Detroit.
The public will never learn about most failures to respond.
Burglars have looted two fire stations in the past week.